"Stand Up to Cancer" Raised $100M Plus in 2008

Stand Up 2 Cancer

Diane Sawyer, anchor of ABC's "World News," will co-host the event with "CBS Evening News" anchor Katie Couric and NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams. The trio hosted the "SU2C" telethon in 2008. Couric lost both her husband and her sister to cancer, and has said the disease "destroyed her family."

Stand Up 2 Cancer

Stand Up 2 Cancer

Diane Sawyer, anchor of ABC's "World News," will co-host the event with "CBS Evening News" anchor Katie Couric and NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams. The trio hosted the "SU2C" telethon in 2008. Couric lost both her husband and her sister to cancer, and has said the disease "destroyed her family."

Stand Up 2 Cancer

Stand Up 2 Cancer

"Good Morning America" anchor Robin Roberts announced she had breast cancer in 2007. She returned to on-camera work while she underwent treatment to help give a new understanding to how to live with the disease. She wrote about her cancer battle in her book, "From the Heart: Eight Rules to Live By." Roberts will participate in the event this year, after the prior version of the event raised more than $100 million for cancer research in 2008.